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The Economic Times
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Chinese-linked hackers targeted US, Canadian research facilities for a year: Google

A Chinese-linked hacking group spent more than a year secretly ​stealing data from U.S. and ​Canadian academic, medical and military research institutions, before being detected, ​Google said on Monday.

Between September 2023 and November 2025, the hackers sought information related to defense intelligence, military strategy in the Indo-Pacific, artificial intelligence, unmanned vehicles, cyber warfare programs and medical ‌research, Google's ⁠Threat Intelligence ⁠Group said in a report.

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